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>> Suspend does use a fair amount of battery power. Expecting it to last 30 >> hours is unrealistic. If you suspend then you should remember to plug in >> at night. > > I've put my machine in suspend for about 24 hours (I have a total >of 12MB RAM) and lost no more than 15 to 20% of battery juice. Seems to me >that conceivably, you could but it in suspend for 3 or 4 days and still >have some juice (assuming it was fully charged to begin with--though it >would definitely be due for a recharge!). > > Maybe your machine sucking up lots of power like his? > >> I personally find that hibernation (with 20 megs) takes about as long as >> a shut-down reboot, so I find it pretty painful and don't feel like wasting >> 20 megs of disk space on the feature. > I use a similar configurationd and the figures 15%/24h seem to apply for me too. Antti Kilpinen, Ph.D (Chem.Eng.) Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research Abo Akademi University DataCity FIN-20520 Turku